"What's Wrong With Ruby's Object Model (And Why That's A Good Thing)" by David Brady In this stunning half-hour EXTRAVAGANZA of mind-blowing talkifying, I will show you what's wrong with Ruby's objects is actually what's right about Ruby--and how this has led a lot of programmers down...
"The State of C Extensions: Alive and Well, so Learn to Deal" by Sam Rawlins Ruby C Extensions have been a roller coaster ride over the last few years. While many Rubyists shy away from such non-Ruby code, its hard to imagine our Ruby ecosystem without them. Many of the most popular g...
At GitHub, we've been growing pretty quickly and that sort of growth presents a lot of challenges. We were feeling the pain of trying to teach everyone (developers and designers alike) how to get GitHub and all our other projects running on their laptops. The process was failure-prone...
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Pivotal Labs Closing Drinkup Close out the show with a beer (or wine), some snacks and conversation with the folks from Pivotal Labs. Time: 7:00-10:00 PM Where: Squatters: 147 West Broadway (300 South), Salt Lake City, UT, (801) 363-2739
5K Fun Run Come join us for the fourth annual MountainWest RubyConf 5K. Runners and walkers of all abilities are welcome! When & Where Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 7:00 A.M. (we’ll be back before the conference starts). Liberty Park, located at 600 E 1300 S . We’ll be meeting at the sou...
9:15 To 10:00 Why We Need DevOps Now: A Fourteen Year Study Of High Performing IT Organizations by Gene Kim 10:00 To 10:30 Hell Has Frozen Over: DevOps & Security by James Turnbull 10:30 To 11:00 Keep Ops Happy, Designing for Production by Jason Roelofs 11:00 To 1:00 Lunch 1:00 To 1:3...
MoneyDesktop is the most significant advancement in the financial services industry in the last decade and is revolutionizing the way that millions of people will interact with their finances. Its award-winning platform is built using Ruby 1.9 and utilizes frameworks like Rails 3 and ...
As a teen and twenty-something programmer I often found myself tossing hundreds of lines of code at a problem. I see this pattern over and over again in the young programmers we hire at my day job. I've noticed that now that I'm in my mid thirties and have been programming for almost ...
MWRC 2013 is a three day single-track conference covering Ruby and DevOps. The DevOps track will be on April 3, and the Ruby track will be April 4-5. We expect 300 attendees per day, and 350 unique attendees across all three days. MWRC values technical excellence above all else. We ar...
At GitHub, we've been growing pretty quickly and that sort of growth presents a lot of challenges. We were feeling the pain of trying to teach everyone (developers and designers alike) how to get GitHub and all our other projects running on their laptops. The process was failure-prone...
As a teen and twenty-something programmer I often found myself tossing hundreds of lines of code at a problem. I see this pattern over and over again in the young programmers we hire at my day job. I've noticed that now that I'm in my mid thirties and have been programming for almost ...
MWRC 2013 is two days of Ruby and one day of DevOps single-track awesomeness. Call for Proposals! ZOMG! You want to speak at MWRC! We want you to speak at MWRC! Sign up right here, right now! Fill out my online form . Posted 13 Nov 2012
"Design a Cucumber/Selenium2/Rspec Test Suite Against a Source-Ambiguous Web Application that is both Powerful and Stakeholder-Friendly" by Sam Rawlins We will create a Cucumber/Selenium2/RSpec test suite against an existing, source-unavailable web app. We will quickly go over the Cuc...
"Advanced Rails Design: Use Fancy OO Techniques Without Turning Ruby into Java" by Noel Rappin As Rails applications have grown and become more complex, limitations of the classic "Fat model, skinny controller" architecture have become evident. Large model classes and tight database c...
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MountainWest RubyConf 2012 Home Schedule Sessions Workshops 5K Waiting List Sponsor Us! Advisors Schedule Thursday 8:00 - 9:00 Registration & Welcome 9:00 - 9:30 "Capability vs. Suitability " by Gary Bernhardt 9:30 - 10:00 "Concurrent Programming with Celluloid " by Tony Arcieri 10:00...
MountainWest RubyConf 2012 Home Register Now!!! Sessions Workshops 5K Sponsorship Prospectus 5K Fun Run Come join us for the third annual MountainWest RubyConf 5K. Runners and walkers of all abilities are welcome! When & Where Friday, March 16, 2012 at 7:00 A.M. (we’ll be back before ...
MountainWest RubyConf 2012 Home Register Now!!! Sessions Workshops 5K Sponsorship Prospectus Register About MWRC is a two-day single-track conference for just $100. Come rub elbows with some of the smartest Rubyists in the world. Conference: March 15-16, 2012 Workshops: March 17, 2012...
